Productivity

In its last all-hands meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the Simplicity Sprint. It is aimed to combat a challenge: To improve employee efficiency. This should be hardly surprising. However, very few would have imagined Google publicly announcing the need for an employee productivity drive. Here is what Sunder Pichai…

This might be the most useful post you read all year — “How useful is what I do?” It’s a question that is so simple on paper, yet so freaking difficult to answer in real life. The usefulness of your product or service is a metric that’s difficult to quantify. As a result, a lot of entrepreneurs and business leaders don’t bother…

According to a large survey I conducted via email/Twitter. They’ll surprise the heck out of you. — Writing online has changed my life in unthinkable ways. It can do the same for many of you. After asking via Twitter and email why you don’t write, it surprises me. Many of you don’t see yourselves as writers. Yet every day you write emails and send them to people…

The Orange Journal is still here — Sometimes you just want to curl up into a ball and retreat. Maybe you know the feeling. It’s funny. A random article I wrote for the sole purpose of getting things off my chest generated a long litany of comments. Some hateful, others kind. I’ll be honest. I stopped reading…

Notion’s biggest thread in 2023 is gearing up! — Awaken the Microsoft Loop Almost a year ago, Microsoft announced Loop was coming in 2022 and it still hasn’t arrived. Yesterday, Microsoft launched their “Early Access” programme for testing the abilities inside the Microsoft Loop app. 🧑🏻‍💻 What is Microsoft Loop? Don’t worry, we have you covered. In short, Microsoft Loop is set to be a new platform…

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci — As a writer, I write blogs, stories, and poems on various platforms and have a youtube channel named — Nextgen Digital. As an entrepreneur, I provide strategy consulting on cloud tech, revenue generation, and digital transformation. To summarize, I’m on my Mac mostly and creating content in some form. I…

And should try to get your style to skyrocket — Creativity is an eluding concept. Most people grow up thinking it’s a gift some have and some don’t. I did too. Those who choose to write despite this belief soon realize this is a myth but struggle to increase their creativity. They read about it. They follow simple practices like…

I call Olivia Newton-John an angel because many — especially Americans — don’t know what she did for the world. — Money can’t always save your life. An angel — Olivia Newton-John — was taken from us recently. It’s weird to say, but she was a family friend. Some of the personal stories involving her are wild, and maybe I’ll share them one day. For now, she is gone forever. For…